Got contacts

On September 09 2008 11:48 nA.Inky wrote:
I hope you like them.

I had trouble at first too, perhaps an above average amount of trouble. The first few days or a week is weird, and you should give yourself a nice extra pocket of time in which to deal with lens bullshit, ie dropping them, not able to get them in, etc. My big secret (I'm not saying this is original mind you) is to look into the mirror with my face slightly tilted down... looking into my eyes, the whites below my iris's are very visible (because of the angle of my head) and I just slap the lens onto the white, kind of slide it around on just the white part of my eye (to help flatten it out), then lift my face like normal and let my eyes go into their normal position, thus forcing the lens up over the iris. This makes it easier to get the things in because you aren't looking right at the lens as it comes on. Taking them out I do kind of the same thing as before, then kind of grab the very edge of the lens with my finger tip, slide it way down off my iris and over the white of my eye below the iris, then kind of pinch to get the lens to fold, then grab it and pull it off.

All that said, I'm done with lenses! I wore glasses from age 7 to age 20, got into lenses late in year 20, and wore them until just about 2 weeks ago, around my 25th birthday. I was very insecure about wearing glasses, and got into lenses for vanity reasons. Now, at age 25, I don't have the insecurity anymore (or it is a lot smaller than it used to be) and am glad to get back into glasses.

There are problems with lenses. For me, the main one is that because I have stigmatism, they don't give me the same quality vision I can get with glasses. For many people, lenses give BETTER vision than glasses. But lenses get lost. Lenses get dirty and irritate the hell out of your eyes. If you get dirt under one, it SUCKS. If you get a tiny hair under one, it SUCKS. If anything gets in your eye, it sucks. Sometimes they just irritate your eye on their own, and it's uncomfortable. When you get tired, your eyes dry out, and the lenses will kind of start acting weird - folding up a little and giving you discomfort and much reduced vision. Sometimes your eyes will dry out even when you aren't tired (wind, etc), and same problems result. When people use computers (particularly in gaming situations) they tend to blink less, and thus the eyes and lenses dry out... etc etc! They got to be too big a hassle for me, combined with worse than optimal vision, so I LEAPED at the chance to get back into glasses.

Last thing: lenses deprive your eyes of needed oxygen. They are probably OK if you don't wear them all the time. In other words, don't wear them for more than 8 or 10 hours at a stretch if you can help it. DO NOT SLEEP IN THEM! If you sleep in lenses, you open yourself up for serious health problems, including bacterial infections that will cost you your eyesight. But even if you don't get bad infections or minor infections from wearing them too much, you are still doing light damage just by depriving the eye of oxygen. So take them out every 8 or 10 hours (or less!) and let your eyes have a break.

I seriously hope you like them. Lenses were great for me, and helped my confidence level (with women, peers, etc) at a time when I really needed that. After a few years of that, I'm now happy with glasses again.

GL.

On September 09 2008 12:14 Folca wrote:
Really depends on the person, and the eye honestally
It didnt concern me too much at all
Oh also, the product, if its the contacts you get at like, Lencrafters, its ok,
I prefer Day+Night 30 Days Contacts, Hellas good, and they can last more than a month honestally
They can actually last forever, but very not advised, you can get eye crap or somethin, i heard on the news a while ago this grandma had contacts for 70 years and now shes legally blind because of that

On September 09 2008 11:48 nA.Inky wrote:
I hope you like them.

I had trouble at first too, perhaps an above average amount of trouble. The first few days or a week is weird, and you should give yourself a nice extra pocket of time in which to deal with lens bullshit, ie dropping them, not able to get them in, etc. My big secret (I'm not saying this is original mind you) is to look into the mirror with my face slightly tilted down... looking into my eyes, the whites below my iris's are very visible (because of the angle of my head) and I just slap the lens onto the white, kind of slide it around on just the white part of my eye (to help flatten it out), then lift my face like normal and let my eyes go into their normal position, thus forcing the lens up over the iris. This makes it easier to get the things in because you aren't looking right at the lens as it comes on. Taking them out I do kind of the same thing as before, then kind of grab the very edge of the lens with my finger tip, slide it way down off my iris and over the white of my eye below the iris, then kind of pinch to get the lens to fold, then grab it and pull it off.

All that said, I'm done with lenses! I wore glasses from age 7 to age 20, got into lenses late in year 20, and wore them until just about 2 weeks ago, around my 25th birthday. I was very insecure about wearing glasses, and got into lenses for vanity reasons. Now, at age 25, I don't have the insecurity anymore (or it is a lot smaller than it used to be) and am glad to get back into glasses.

There are problems with lenses. For me, the main one is that because I have stigmatism, they don't give me the same quality vision I can get with glasses. For many people, lenses give BETTER vision than glasses. But lenses get lost. Lenses get dirty and irritate the hell out of your eyes. If you get dirt under one, it SUCKS. If you get a tiny hair under one, it SUCKS. If anything gets in your eye, it sucks. Sometimes they just irritate your eye on their own, and it's uncomfortable. When you get tired, your eyes dry out, and the lenses will kind of start acting weird - folding up a little and giving you discomfort and much reduced vision. Sometimes your eyes will dry out even when you aren't tired (wind, etc), and same problems result. When people use computers (particularly in gaming situations) they tend to blink less, and thus the eyes and lenses dry out... etc etc! They got to be too big a hassle for me, combined with worse than optimal vision, so I LEAPED at the chance to get back into glasses.

Last thing: lenses deprive your eyes of needed oxygen. They are probably OK if you don't wear them all the time. In other words, don't wear them for more than 8 or 10 hours at a stretch if you can help it. DO NOT SLEEP IN THEM! If you sleep in lenses, you open yourself up for serious health problems, including bacterial infections that will cost you your eyesight. But even if you don't get bad infections or minor infections from wearing them too much, you are still doing light damage just by depriving the eye of oxygen. So take them out every 8 or 10 hours (or less!) and let your eyes have a break.

I seriously hope you like them. Lenses were great for me, and helped my confidence level (with women, peers, etc) at a time when I really needed that. After a few years of that, I'm now happy with glasses again.

GL.

On September 09 2008 12:54 il0seonpurpose wrote:
So I see that it all depends on the person, I'll be sure to keep those clean, and you have to wash and put in new solution in the lense case right?